Win32 drive mapping... aka "net use"

[Roger Upole]

The split should work fine if you remove the r
(raw string) prefix.
>>> win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split('\\\x00')
['A:', 'C:', 'D:', 'E:', 'F:', 'G:', 'H:', 'J:', 'K:', 'Y:', 'Z:', '']

         Roger

"Lucas Machado" <LMachado1 at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1110051935.541036.146070 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Roger Upole wrote:
>> You could use win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings to list
>> the drive letters currently in use, and find the next free
>> letter.  net use * probably does something like that under
>> the covers.
>
> I went and took your advice and this is where I am now:
>
>>>> import win32api
>>>> a = win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings()
>>>> a
> 'A:\\\x00C:\\\x00D:\\\x00E:\\\x00Z:\\\x00'
>>>> print a
> A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ Z:\
>
> So I think this function will work great since it gives me a string
> that i can simply strip away what i don't need and then split it into a
> list and traverse the list.  However, when I try to split it, the
> following occurs:
>
>>>> b = a.strip(r'\\\x00')
>>>> b
> 'A:\\\x00C:\\\x00D:\\\x00E:\\\x00Z:\\\x00'
>>>> b = a.split(r'\\\x00')
>>>> b
> ['A:\\\x00C:\\\x00D:\\\x00E:\\\x00Z:\\\x00']
>
> I'm a bit of a novice at python (even more so of the win32 api), but
> I've used the split and strip functions before (for example to get rid
> of '\n' from strings) so it is unclear to me why this does not work.
>
> Thanks
> --LM
> 



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